Mahler's Adagietto
Music lovers describe the part that Mahler's beautiful Adagietto from his Fifth Symphony has played in their lives. From March 2011.
Gustav Mahler wrote his 5th Symphony during the summers of 1901 and 1902. The Adagietto is the 4th movement which is thought to have been inspired by falling in love with Alma who he married around this time.
This single movement is the composer鈥檚 most well-known piece of music. It was famously used in the 1971 Luchino Visconti film Death in Venice. It was also conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the mass at St Patrick's Cathedral, New York on the day of the burial of Robert Kennedy.
Composer David Matthews explains the significance of this piece in Mahler's output.
Psychoanalyst Anthony Cantle describes listening to it with his mother during her last days of dementia.
Malcolm Reid tells how this piece signified a change in himself as a young man in the British police force with narrow, racist views, to hearing it in Australia and shifting to becoming a liberal.
And Helen Epstein explains why it was played at her mother's funeral.
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Producer: Rosie Boulton
First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in March 2011.
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Philharmonia Orchestra (Aline Brewer on harp)
Adagietto: Sehr langsam
- Mahler: Symphony No.5.
- Telarc.
Credit
Role | Contributor |
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Composer | Gustav Mahler |
Broadcasts
- Tue 29 Mar 2011 13:3091热爆 Radio 4 FM
- Sat 2 Apr 2011 15:3091热爆 Radio 4 FM
- Fri 18 Nov 2016 18:3091热爆 Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 19 Nov 2016 00:3091热爆 Radio 4 Extra
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